Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Where under a bequest, whether specific or general, a person is
entitled, beneficially or otherwise, to the manuscript of a literary, dramatic
or musical work, or to an artistic work, and the work was not published before
the death of the testator, the bequest shall, unless a contrary intention
appears in the testator's will, be read as including the copyright in the
work in so far as the testator was the owner of the copyright immediately
before his or her death.